Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Maritime Semaphore Codices
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Audible warning with nuanced maritime signaling intent
- 3. Command post where signal officer dispatches encoded flags
- 8. Grave maritime signal with flares or flags indicating peril
- 9. One who conceals messages in complex maritime flag arrangements
- 10. Signal craft performing windward alternations with obscure signs
- 12. Nautical code form phonetically flag-spelling signs
- 16. Triangular flag with secret orders fluttered aloft
- 18. Directional angle crucial when aligning signal lamps precisely
Down
- 2. Line hoisting obscure pennants in signaling rig
- 4. Specialist interpreting cryptic maritime gestures at sea
- 5. Tool for ropework, vital in rigging obscure signal flags
- 6. Raising complex directives by vexillological display
- 7. Point of sail when wind abeam and vessel trips signals broadside
- 11. Senior naval leader directing fleet signal interpretation
- 13. Device securing signal halyard in sudden squalls
- 14. Obsolete Morse signaling device for night communication
- 15. Pivoted arms conveying coded messages across harbor
- 17. Light source for hidden signals in nocturnal waters
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